The media coverage of the election is relentlessly biased. When Bill de Blasio campaigns on a radical divisive platform, the media treats him like JFK. When Lhota criticizes Bill de Blasio’s disastrous plans to turn over New York City to criminals, he’s accused of being divisive.

“Bill wants to talk about the past. That’s all he ever wants to talk about,” he said. “You wanna talk about Christopher Columbus and 1492, knock yourself out. Why don’t we talk about the people in the City of New York in 2013 and 2014?"...

Republican nominee Joe Lhota has pounced after a New York Times article revealed that Bill de Blasio was a fundraiser for and an ardent supporter of the leftist Sandinista revolutionaries of Nicaragua in the 1980s. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY...

"Lhota will be competitive in November against de Blasio because they present such striking polar opposites," he says. "I think there are many people who when they focus on de Blasio will think that Lhota may be an option for them."...

I asked campaign spokeswoman Jessica Proud how well Lhota and Koch know each other, whether they have been talking during the campaign, and how he feels about Koch's national political activities. She declined to comment on any of those matters.